Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination

Gas drilling companies such as Halliburton say the gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is safe, but opponents contend it pollutes groundwater with dangerous substances. Now, new evidence has emerged possibly linking natural gas drilling to groundwater contamination. ProPublica journalist Abrahm Lustgarten reports federal officials in Wyoming have found that at least three water wells contain chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.

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News & Politics

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• democracy now
• 9/3/09

[the1yage]

These companies are fucking evil. Nobody would not accept dishonest, reckless behavior like this from a neighbor or coworker. Why do we accept it when people hide behind the legal fiction of a corporation?

[PokemonMaster1015]

Halliburton is not a Drilling company they fracture the well after driling is completed. they dont Own the wells either they are just a service company for the oil companies

[MrNiemen1]

@MrNiemen1 buy the way they are planning to build up an atomic plant just 25 km from where I live. I can't believe it's happening. Most of people from my region live from tourism. We have endangered spices of birds and other animals I'm not gonna write about. I think ??? W.T.F no cohones no brain no money.

[MrNiemen1]

@hottyfromnotty and what can I do to change minds of 37mio dildoheads who are in love with American Idol and other crap.

[Yumar9]

@MrNiemen1 Why You don't fight for Your Fundamental, Human RIGHTS???!!!

What are You waiting for???

For Aid?

From where?!

As I know, as I've heard form polish peoples, as I saw myself in Poland, Your Politics - HAVE CHEATED YOU!, they are looking only for money and Pink Lies of Gas-Power!

They are - Stupid, Little Boys, Big Swindlers, Bastards of USrael , Cowards.

Didn"t You Know?!

They've never told You -any word of Truth about Fracturing Pollutions and Risk for Water!

Scandal

[Yumar9]

@SteveTheViking88 "Poland will be the hub of the shale oil industry instead" ONLY because

POLISH POLITICS and MEDIA - HAVE SWINDLED POLISH NATION - AT ALL!! (there's no Opposition - in this... BIG GAS-CORRUPTION !)

Poles are completely -DESINFORMED about Truth of Fracturing

Nobody can say - about Contaminations, only Sweet Gas-Paradise (though polish gas in...99% is gift for no Poles !!!)

40 mln people in Poland -are kept in closed balloon of Big Lie.

Of Frack Holocaust

[SteveTheViking88]

I can assure the Polish guys on here that things like this will not happen in Europe. This is a young process, lessons have been learned from the testing in the US and it's now as safe as houses. It's only the cowboys who screw up. France (the great protesters) have banned this process without reason, Poland will be the hub of the shale oil industry instead. As for "OnenessNow", that will only happen if every single person in the world gets involved and it'll still take 25 years...

[OnenessNow]

Watch GASLAND !!! The powerful documentary by director Josh Fox.

Trailer here: watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8 Share with your friends and family.

Whole documentary at topdocumentaryfilms[dot]com[sl­­­ash]gasland

This process endangers WATER, AIR and SOIL for all of Humankind.

Help us BAN this Fracking and develop SOLAR, WIND TURBINE, MAGNETIC,

HYDRO KINETIC and GEO THERMAL.NOW.

[OnenessNow]

311 the World woke up and decided NO NUKES and NO FLUKES We ask for the END OF THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE ON EARTH. We DEMAND THE END OF TOXIC POWER SYSTEMS ON EARTH. Let us BAN HYDRO FRACKING IN AMERICA as this POISONS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER Let us DEMAND THE END OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATE COMPLEX NOW. Let us DEMAND THE END OF ENDLESS WARS ON HUMANKIND Let us DEVELOP IN UNITY the Energy of SOLAR, MAGNETIC, WIND TURBINE,GEO THERMAL& HYDRO KINETIC4ALL POWER

[desperatomm]

Thank you Pokemon for clearing that up. I feel so much safer now knowing that. NOT!